Analysis: How Fox News is trying to guide its viewers away from Trump
Even when left-wing politicians like Sen. Bernie Sanders appear on the network, any effect of that rhetoric isby critical follow-up interviews and selective clipping of the comments. The network’s politics are obvious, but so, too, are its efforts to steer viewers to specific political positions.
It’s not common, though, that Trump would be the one being steered away from. The network’s initial skepticism of Trump in the 2016 primaries gave way to four years of hagiography. There was a good reason for this,by journalists Peter Baker and Susan Glasser in a book published last year. Trump, longtime Fox News honcho Roger Ailes believed, “was someone who connected with the Fox audience even more than Fox did.” So the network allied with Trump in an effort to placate his base.
the usual kid-glove treatment, helping steer the 2024 candidate away from iffy rhetoric where he could. His question about DeSantis, though, yielded an extended riff about DeSantis’s perceived disloyalty.“He’s getting crushed now in the polls,” Trump said [falsely]. “Because he did a little thing called voting against Social Security, voting against Medicare.
On Tuesday morning, “Fox & Friends” offered similar criticism. The attacks on DeSantis were too much, co-host Brian Kilmeade
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